The Tree of Life: 1.6. Swami Krishnananda.
============================================================================== Thursday 23, January 2025, 09:40. Srimad Bhagavad Gita The Tree of Life: 1.6. Discourse 1: The Twofold Character of Cosmic Life-6. Swami Krishnananda. =============================================================================== The mind likes variety because it is a slave of this impulse of self-expression into the variety of experience. We are not masters; we are utter slaves of something which is handling us as puppets. This power is everywhere in the world; it is not only in the body of a particular individual. That is why it is called cosmic prakriti. The gunas of prakriti are cosmic powers which compel every individual, right from the lowest electron to the highest orbs of the solar system. All these are dancing like puppets, marionettes, by the strings that are operated upon by these powers of nature called sattva, rajas and tamas, which are the constituents of prakriti. Visualising this horror of l...